Usually means: Existing in essence but not physically.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word virtual:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. virtual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. virtual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. virtual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. virtual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. virtual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Virtual, virtual: Wordnik
  7. virtual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. virtual: Wiktionary
  9. virtual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. virtual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. virtual: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. virtual: Dictionary.com
  13. virtual: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. virtual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Virtual (disambiguation), Virtual (horse), Virtual (philosophy), Virtual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Virtual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. virtual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. virtual: Free Dictionary
  19. virtual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. virtual: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. virtual: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. Virtual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  23. virtual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  24. virtual: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. virtual: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  2. virtual: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. virtual: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. virtual: Netlingo
  3. virtual: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. virtual: Encyclopedia
  6. virtual: CCI Computer
  7. Virtual: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. virtual: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. virtual: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virtual: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. virtual: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality; also, imitated, simulated.
adjective:  For practical purposes, though not technically; almost complete, very near.
adjective:  (computing)
adjective:  Operating using a computer and/or online rather than physically present.
adjective:  Simulated in a computer and/or online.
adjective:  (object-oriented programming) Of a class member: capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass.
adjective:  (mechanics) Pertaining to a theoretical infinitesimal velocity in a mechanical system that does not violate the system's constraints; also, of other physical quantities: resulting from such a velocity.
adjective:  (physics)
adjective:  Pertaining to a theoretical quality of something which would produce an observable effect if counteracting factors such as friction are disregarded; specifically, of a head of water: producing a certain pressure if friction, etc., is disregarded.
adjective:  (optics) Chiefly in virtual focus: of a focus or point: from which light or other radiation apparently emanates; also, of an image: produced by light that appears to diverge from a point beyond the reflecting or refracting surface.
adjective:  (particle physics) Pertaining to particles in temporary existence due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
adjective:  (quantum mechanics) Of a quantum state: having an intermediate, short-lived, and unobservable nature.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Having efficacy or power due to some natural qualities.
adjective:  (specifically, also figuratively) Of a plant or other thing: having strong healing powers; virtuous.
adjective:  Having the power of acting without the agency of some material or measurable thing; possessing invisible efficacy.
adjective:  Producing, or able to produce, some result; effective, efficacious.
adjective:  Synonym of virtuous (“full of virtue; having excellent moral character”)
noun:  (uncountable) Preceded by the: that which is imitated or simulated rather than existing in fact or reality; (countable) an instance of this.
noun:  (uncountable) That which is simulated in a computer and/or online; virtual reality; (countable) an instance of this; specifically (gambling), a computer simulation of a real-world sport such as horse racing.
noun:  (countable, programming) A virtual (adjective sense 3.3) member function of a class.

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